x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 383 Sale. Pieck Le Leu de Wilhelm, The Hague, May 28, 1777, No. 70 (207 florins, Ten Kate). 785. A Peasant Company outside a House. A woman leans over the half-door. Near her are two peasants smoking and drinking. Panel, 10 inches by 9 inches. Sale. C. H. van Heemskerck, widow of A. Westerhoff, The Hague, August 26, 1782, No. 1 8 (35 florins). 786. Peasants outside an Inn. In front of a house with trees sit peasants and women drinking, smoking, and conversing. A horse stands at a manger. In the distance is a village. Panel, 16 inches by 21^ inches. Sale. J. A. Versijden van Varick, Leyden, October 29, 1791, No. 48 (59 florins). 786(2. Peasants at the Inn Door. Sm. 103. Panel, 16 inches by 14 inches. Sale. Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bart., London, 1794 (44 : 2S.). 787. Three Peasants outside a Country Inn. Sm. 82. Two smoke j the third holds a glass in one hand and a jug in the other. Panel, 12 inches by 10 inches. Sales. P. Locquet, Amsterdam, September 22, 1783, No. 271 (220 florins, Beekman). Calonne, Paris, 1789 (700 francs). London, 1795. 787*7. The Courtyard of a Country Inn. Sm. 77. Various groups of figures, numbering eighteen in all. In front a man sits beside a tub serving as a table. Before him stands a girl holding a jug and a large glass. [Possibly identical with 782.] Panel, 13^ inches by n inches. Mentioned by Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, ii. 66, 68. Sales. Due de la Valliere, Paris, 1781 (1500 francs). (Probably, according to Sm.) Robit, Paris, May 21, 1801, No. 76 or No. 57 of Bryan's catalogue (1712 francs) ; this was said to measure 15 inches by 14 inches. 788. Peasants resting outside an Inn. Sm. 33 and 238. They are under an arbour. In the right foreground a peasant sits on a little stool, facing left ; on the left of him another man sits facing the spectator. On the left the hostess stands in profile to the right, pouring out a glass of beer from a jug. Behind her to the left a little child stands at the open inn door. A long-handled broom is placed against the wall. Beside a tub in the right middle distance sits a peasant who lights his pipe ; a woman holds a jug. To the left a man stands by a slender tree-trunk the foliage of which forms the arbour. Formerly known as " The Long Broom Handle." Panel, 15^ inches by 14 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, ii. 109. Engraved by J. Suyderhoef (Wussin, 124).
